Welcome to WOW’s designer newsletter - a round up of news and inspiration curated especially for you

To all designers who have completed an entry this year, congratulations! For those of you on the home stretch, we wish you the best of luck for the week ahead - the 19 June finish line is just around the corner.

Please visit our website if you need any final tips for garment photography, dressing instructions or freighting, and please make sure you are familiar with our Terms and Conditions. If you require assistance with the WOW online entry process, please contact Wardrobe Administrator Kate Ruffell at kate@worldofwearableart.com. 

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Liam Brandon Murray: Garments as intricate as cityscapes 

As a self-confessed “detail freak”, UK sculptor and artist Liam Brandon Murray makes his garments as intricate as cityscapes, full of layered depth – and his goal is to get the art world to recognise costume and fashion as fine art.

At the 2016 WOW Awards, his pieces Lord Maharaja & Star Bride were runner-up in the Wearable Technology Award and placed second in the Costume & Film section. He describes them both as “eccentric to the hilt”...read more

Our international WOW exhibition has been on display at Peabody Essex Museum since mid-February, and in that time has been seen by over 60,000 visitors. Last week, Philippe White (pictured above), Prop Maker at Cirque du Soleil, visited the exhibition and commented, "I really felt that the costumes had a life of their own, a story captured deep within and expressed with so much quality and creativity."

The exhibition closes at PEM on 11 June.

LADY OF THE WOOD, David Walker, United States